Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Hurricane Florence crippled electricity and coal -- solar and wind were back the next day

ByIrina IvanovaMoneyWatchSeptember 25, 2018, 9:24 AM

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Florence swamped North and South Carolina, thousands of residents who get power from coal-fired utilities remain without electricity.

Yet
solar installations, which provide less than 5 percent of North
Carolina's energy, were up and running the day after the storm,
according to electricity news outlet GTM.
And while half of Duke Energy's customers were without power at some
point, according to CleanTechnica, the utility's solar farms sustained
no damage.